Books: Young Readers' Zeus Who

Keeping the Greek myths untangled is something the Greeks themselves
were never very good at. One reason is that, for religious, political
and artistic reasons, the myths were always being changed. Another is
that the Olympians, the lesser gods and the mortal heroes were
virtually omnigamous; the nymphs were, if not nymphomaniacal. at least
nymphoeccentric. But precisely because the myths are complex, they are
best learned by the young, and it is hard to imagine a better or more
decorousintroduction than Robert Graves's new book.